tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3611639517962742486.post7756031500702170898..comments2024-03-25T15:31:12.151-07:00Comments on We Live In A Political World: #342 / Blah, Blah, Blah...Gary A. Pattonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15049925834933920507noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3611639517962742486.post-44645169753711259402022-12-07T09:49:50.399-08:002022-12-07T09:49:50.399-08:00Svante Arrhenius was not “the first person to be a...Svante Arrhenius was not “the first person to be able to explain how the ice ages had occurred.” His was one of several proposed explanations for the causes of past ice ages, including, as the author points out, fluctuations in the relationship between Earth and the sun.<br /><br />Arrhenius proposed an hypothesis for the origin of observed climate variability, and then sought to mathematically prove the hypothesis as a mechanism to explain observed climate variability. His hypothesis was not based on observed fluctuations in prehistoric atmospheric CO2, but on laboratory observations of enclosed gas systems containing CO2. His model was just as inadequate to explain contemporary observations as are all of the mathematical climate models now held up by the climate change priesthood as proof of the perils of climate change.<br /><br />The remainder of the article, especially the “B” for blah-blah blah section, is largely rhetoric that does nothing to reveal the cultural, economic and political machinations that have resulted in the religion of climate change, and its wide-eyed acceptance by corporate media, Big Green, gullible government functionaries, and the general public.<br /><br />Unfortunately, you left out of your commentary the most interesting, revealing and astute observation by the author: <br /><br />“Climate change isn’t a problem that can be solved by summoning the “will.” It isn’t a problem that can be “fixed” or “conquered,” though these words are often used. It isn’t going to have a happy ending, or a win-win ending, or, on a human timescale, any ending at all. Whatever we might want to believe about our future, there are limits, and we are up against them.”<br /><br />I urge you to read Addressing Climate Change Will Not “Save the Planet” at https://theintercept.com/2022/12/03/climate-biodiversity-green-energy/Michael A. Lewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04980105313542633114noreply@blogger.com